If nothing else before this had locked in that this era of Doctor Who was going to be incredible – this episode was it.
No Moffat-isms that made the Doctor or the Companions the special center of attention, nothing. The Doctor didn’t interfere, didn’t give Rosa Parks the magical courage to be a hero for standing up for what she believed in, nothing. The Doctor and her companions were just there, involved but just background to the amazingly powerful thing that Rosa Parks herself did.
A lot of people were surprised this was done well. But the writer was Malorie Blackman, one of the best living black writers in Britain and quite possibly our greatest young adult author. She wrote the incredible Noughts and Crosses series and has built her career on sensitive and impactful depictions of race in children’s fiction.
I highly recommend her books. They can be enjoyed and appreciated at any age. Her writing is always to an impeccable standard.
fandom: tales of symphonia ship: zelos/colette word count: 6.2k rating: g read the full thing here
Colette
likes to watch Zelos, sometimes.
Though
their first meeting was far from perfect (and admittedly a little hazy, from
Colette’s side), she’s found that he doesn’t seem very bothered by it at all.
He flirts with her, just as he does with Sheena, Raine, and Presea, and while
Sheena insists this isn’t a good thing, Colette doesn’t mind too much. And
she’s found that, while he doesn’t really like to show it, he can be nice, too.
(During
nights where they are not fortunate enough to make it to an inn, he always
finds his place next to her. Despite no longer suffering from the symptoms of
her angel transformation, she has found the transition overwhelmingly
difficult; sleep still does not come easily to her, but it doesn’t seem to come
easily to Zelos, either.)
At
first, they didn’t talk a lot. When they did, it was just one-liners, jokes and
overused pick-up lines, always met with a smile from Colette. She understands
why they others get irritated with him, but she also notices that when everyone
looks away, his eyes gloss over a bit, as if he is suddenly relaxing, even
though his body language tries to tell them that he is always relaxed.
Colette
supposes she has spent a large portion of her life putting up faces, too.
Perhaps that’s just the reality of their twisted fates, as Chosens.
Her
masks and Zelos’s are different, though. When Colette is trying to appear
strong so that nobody will worry about her, Zelos is laughing and joking and
dismissing everything that’s wrong. But Colette wonders, sometimes, about some
of the things he says; loosely-veiled remarks about his discontentment with his
life, with the Chosen system, with the politics of Tethe’alla and somewhere in
there the thought of running away from it all. The rest of the party
dismisses it, says that’s just how he is, but Colette isn’t so sure if they
should.
She
wonders, sometimes, if his jokes are not really jokes at all.
ow they burned their house down because they didnt want to turn back and they were afraid of what theyd done and they were just little kids and they watched it burn fuck this shit man they were just scared but they were pretending to be strong im emotionally compromised they were so fucking young i
So I started watching this Japanese dating show on Netflix called Rea(L)ove, where every contestant is looking for love and each has a “dark secret” that they have to reveal to the other contestants at random times, and hope that the others still accept them. Some are addicted to sex, some have a lot of debt, some have a criminal record and so on. So there is this one girl who likes one of the guys despite him being rude at times, and he choosesto go on a solo date with her. Towards the end of their date, the hosts make her share her secret with him, and it goes as follows:
he had an almost speechless and shocked response, he didn’t say anything negative or positive really, just the two hosts kept laughing and saying very rude remarks. The scene just kind of ended with them walking away and then their individual thoughts on the date that pretty much boiled down to:
and
So the next day, the girls, this time, get to choose a guy to go on a date with…
WILL HE????
HE DID!
So now, on the date—–
Sorry for the long post, but this was one of the sweetest things I’ve seen in a long time, and I was literally crying and just needed to share this with someone
SPOILER ALERT: THEY CHOSE EACH OTHER AT THE END!!!!!!!!
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